Pope: Culture Must Defend the Person

"That Christians may use literature, art and the mass media to greater advantage in order to favor a culture which defends and promotes the values of the human person."

VATICAN CITY (Zenit) - Benedict XVI's general prayer intention for May is for a culture that defends and promotes the values of the human person.

The Apostleship of Prayer announced the general intention chosen by the Pope, "That Christians may use literature, art and the mass media to greater advantage in order to favor a culture which defends and promotes the values of the human person."

The Holy Father also chooses a missionary intention for each month. In May he will pray, "That the Virgin Mary, star of evangelization and queen of the apostles, may still guide today with maternal affection the missionaries, both men and women, throughout the world, just as she accompanied the apostles in the early stages of the Church."